This video shows how you can desolder a soldered-on PLCC BIOS ROM chip from your board, and then solder on a PLCC socket (SMD type) instead.

This is useful for recovering from a failed BIOS upgrade, and for coreboot (previously LinuxBIOS) users and developers.

See http://www.coreboot.org/Soldering_a_socket_on_your_board for details.

Note that I'm a total newbie when it comes to soldering and I still managed to do this. So there's no reason to be scared by this kind of stuff, everybody can learn how to do it.


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Producer: Uwe Hermann
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: coreboot; linuxbios; bios; rom; chip; plcc; smd; smt; pcb; solder; flux; wick; desolder; station; hot; air; gun; socket; hacks
Contact Information: http://www.hermann-uwe.de

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany

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